Wendong Zhang

Wendong Zhang

  • Associate Professor

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Faculty Expertise

  • Applied Economics
  • Food and Agricultural Economics
  • Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics and Policy
  • Emerging Markets
  • Sustainability

Contact

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

wendongz@cornell.edu

Cornell Directory Entry

Biography

Wendong Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. His research and extension program seeks to better understand U.S. farmland market, Chinese agriculture, as well as the interplay between agriculture and the environment.

Zhang is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, and was an Associate Editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 2020 to 2023. He is also Faculty Affiliate at Cornell Center for China Economic Research (CICER), Faculty Fellow at Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and a 2023-2025 Fellow with the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF).

Prior to joining Cornell, Zhang was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. He obtained my Ph.D. in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from the Ohio State University in 2015.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • Young Professional Achievement Award (2022) College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Society, the Ohio State University
  • Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award, Individual: Less than Ten Years' Experience (2021) Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
  • Advisor of Winner of the AAEA Best Undergraduate Student Paper Competition (2021) Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
  • Early Achievement Award in Extension and Outreach (2021) Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Bruce Garner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis Award (2019) Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

Academic Degrees

  • PhD Ohio State University, 2015
  • MA Economics, Ohio State University, 2012
  • BS Environmental Science, Fudan University, 2009